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  • Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
  • Roots of accordion playing in South Texas
    Filmed in 1986 by Robert Boonzajer Flaes & Maarten Rens

КОМЕНТАРІ • 44

  • @robboonzajerflaes891
    @robboonzajerflaes891 11 років тому +31

    Wow I never realized this video would ever reach such a large audience. Makes me very happy, almost 30 years after Maarten and I made it. It was my first film. Y despues de todos anos, mi dedicacion y amor para esta musica y para esos musicos sigue creciendo. robert boonzajer

    • @enriquehernandez4848
      @enriquehernandez4848 4 роки тому +1

      Thank you!

    • @1000equis
      @1000equis 2 роки тому

      great film. been watching for many years. try to get it on a streaming platform.

    • @robboonzajerflaes891
      @robboonzajerflaes891 2 роки тому

      @@1000equis OK will do. Simple - never thought of it. When we made this film there was no internet, not even DVD. By the time it arrived I had moved on. Thanks Amon

    • @1000equis
      @1000equis 2 роки тому

      @@robboonzajerflaes891 sure thing. wish you much success.

  • @andresaguilar4993
    @andresaguilar4993 Рік тому

    This is how you do it ORALE!!! GOD BLESS Y'ALL AND THE WHOLE WORLD.

  • @barnacles62
    @barnacles62 8 років тому +15

    What came from not Germany, but Bohemia(modern day Czech Republic), was polka, which is what this sounds very much like. Polka was never played anywhere until Bohemia in the late 1800s, and it swept across Europe and then to the rest of the world very fast, each country has its own version of it, but it was never heard of until the Bohemians invented it....

  • @Kilinho98
    @Kilinho98 4 роки тому +9

    Beautiful to hear Czech music outside our country :3

    • @dymo9198
      @dymo9198 4 роки тому +2

      Listen to mexican norteño music

    • @citrusblast4372
      @citrusblast4372 4 роки тому +2

      Does czech music sound like polka or the mexican music?

    • @dymo9198
      @dymo9198 4 роки тому +4

      @@citrusblast4372 more like polka, mexican music uses the bajo sexto and an electric bass in norteño music

    • @pablobush4960
      @pablobush4960 3 роки тому

      Is not cezk or whatever u wanna call it..is mexican american..POLKA...

    • @captaincaveman471
      @captaincaveman471 3 роки тому +3

      Greetings from Texas. My hometown has a radio station that plays polka music all day every day. Lots of us Czech people here.

  • @Tejano44
    @Tejano44 14 років тому +3

    Saludos de Sinton , Tejas . My grandparents where from Matamoros , Tamaulipas . I love going there and see the people of my roots .

  • @bobbyberetta4206
    @bobbyberetta4206 9 років тому +12

    I'm from & live in San Antonio, I'm a mix of Mexican, Scottish & French. I thank you for posting this, I always found it a battle within myself on who I was, I'm a Texan first & for most & an American 2nd but instead of fighting between the bagpipes & accordion I choose the guitar but my heart is pure San Antonio.

    • @CesarSandoval024
      @CesarSandoval024 5 років тому

      A mussets bass sounds has a strong bagpipe sounds with it.

  • @areh21
    @areh21 10 років тому +12

    Man that Flaco Jimenez was a jazzy player!

  • @adamcolbertmusic
    @adamcolbertmusic Рік тому

    5:45 that chromatic rundown is awesome!!

  • @gc-dp9nr
    @gc-dp9nr 4 роки тому +1

    That intro...😍😍😍

  • @phillipford8149
    @phillipford8149 8 років тому +2

    I have old books or copies of them with the Lancers Quadrilles in them, it's a tune or set of tunes found in a variety of folk cultures. Pretty neat that John Stark had a copy. He's correct in saying that it takes about 20 minutes to play the whole thing!

  • @Suederizm
    @Suederizm 11 років тому +1

    This is the Chicanos Bible, thank you for posting this.

  • @jazzluvr4u
    @jazzluvr4u 12 років тому

    Open Your Heart?Habre El Corazon! Love that song!

  • @BassicArts
    @BassicArts  15 років тому +1

    Yes it is, and his brother on the bajosexto

  • @MrAlexanderErnst
    @MrAlexanderErnst 10 років тому +3

    Open up your heart and let my love come in
    (spanglish)
    Abre el corazon, mi vida, y me deja entrar
    Sabes que te quiero y que no te puedo olvidar
    Tú eres me cariño y yo te quiero asi hasta el fin
    open up your heart and let my love come in
    Oh, darlin' if you love me, just like the way i do
    Please don't try to scare me, and say you love me true
    Now that you know darlin' that i've told you everything
    open up your heart and let my love come in

  • @fwsteve
    @fwsteve 14 років тому +1

    Ajua!!!! I love it this music!!!

  • @eltiburonjaws1
    @eltiburonjaws1 11 років тому

    Im digging the Lawrence pickup on Toby's bajo...

  • @joesolese
    @joesolese 11 років тому +8

    The Austrian needs to understand one thing, if he is still alive, that throughout history every culture influences another culture and so on and so. Just like how spice was brought to the old world via Asia and Tomatoes brought to the old world via the New World and so on. So by using the accordian the Mexicans took the instrument and made it their own. What's wrong with that? know one says that about the Cajun music or Zydeco. Course they do not play like that in Austria, this is not Austria.

  • @luish.villanueva7216
    @luish.villanueva7216 9 років тому +2

    Cheers from Monterrey México Marielle van den Heuvel. Thanks for upload. PD: sorry this is not like gipsy music. I believe this aseveration is racist

  • @ChirinolerasParker19
    @ChirinolerasParker19 7 років тому

    excelente

  • @claytonc5
    @claytonc5 11 років тому

    where can I get a copy of this on DVD?????

  • @charlesmejia5790
    @charlesmejia5790 4 роки тому

    What’s the name of the opening song???

  • @rafahraccordions668
    @rafahraccordions668 10 років тому

    Como se llama la cancion que canto Flaco Jimenez antes de finalizar el video

  • @random-jj7ix
    @random-jj7ix 7 років тому

    ¿Como se llama la polka del principio?

    • @random-jj7ix
      @random-jj7ix 7 років тому

      Abraham Rocha Muchas Gracias Don Rocha

  • @JAKE2010512
    @JAKE2010512 13 років тому

    what song was flaco and toby playing?

  • @CesarSandoval024
    @CesarSandoval024 5 років тому

    @4:06 trip out

  • @pablobush4960
    @pablobush4960 3 роки тому

    Polka is a traditional music from matamoros and nuevo leon MEXICO .that white guy is wrong..

  • @murphCFO
    @murphCFO 11 років тому

    Meth is one hell of a drug.
    I know, racist comment. Better than a stupid one as above.